Read again.

I never asked you how monopolies hurt consumers. I asked you to provide a real life example of a monopoly that was created in laissez faire structure, without gov't help, that hurt consumers. Which you failed to do.

The fact is that if a company was able to achieve monopoly status by keeping their prices competitive and costs low they should be praised, not scorned. They wouldn't be hurting consumers in the least.

So in your mind we just needed to tinker with the system a little more. A few regs here, a few regs there, some money thrown over there, and everything would've been rosy. Gov't regulations and policies had nothing to do with contributing to the bubble. BS, and you know it.

We've regulated and centrally planned the economy for generations and yet we continually suffer bubble after bubble. Only to prolong the downturn by avoiding liquidation and rewarding those who made the mistakes. Epic fail.